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Reach - Shares soar £1 over the month

August 2021

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  • Epic Code:
  • RCH
  • Price:
  • 385p
The shares exploded up after H1 results. Total sales grew 4% to £302m (+2.6% on a like-for-like basis), which finance director Simon Fuller tells me is the first organic revenue growth since 2007. This reflected a bounceback from Covid for Print revenue (which grew in Q2) but the game changer is Digital, which grew by 42.7%.  Adjusted operating profit was £68.9m for eps of 17.8p.H1 21 saw Digital achieve what it had for the whole of 2017, which shows how far Reach has come - it represents £69m or 23% of sales, which makes it greater than print advertising. As I have previously said, Reach is the fifth largest UK digital asset with an audience of 42m. Fuller says the key takeaway is that the number of journalists is now greater than ...

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